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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: Literalism; 1 The Creation; A Plain Reading; 2 What's Eating Biblical Literalists?; Creationism and the Enlightenment Project; 3 Unwholesome Complexity; Literalism as Scientism's Pale Mimetic Rival; 4 Progressive Versus Degenerating Science; Weighing Incommensurable Paradigms; 5 Does Your God Need Stage Props?; On the Theological Necessity of Methodological Atheism; 6 The Enclave Mentality; Identity Foreclosure and the Fundamentalist Mind; 7 The Gnostic Syndrome; When Literalism Becomes a Heresy

8 Four Witnesses on the Literal Meaning of GenesisBarth, Calvin, Augustine and Maimonides; 9 If Not Foundationalism, What Then?; From Tower Building to Net Mending; Part Two: On Animal Suffering; 10 Stasis, Deception, Curse; Three Literalist Dilemmas; 11 A Midrash; C.S. Lewis's Cosmic Conflict Theodicy Revisited; 12 God of the Whirlwind; Animal Ferocity in the Book of Job; 13 Creation & Kenosis; Evolution and Christ's Self-Emptying Way of the Cross; 14 Animal Ethics, Sabbath Rest; Conclusion; Notes; Subject and Author Index; Praise for Death Before the Fall; About the Author

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